Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Please, Just Stop.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Ephesians 5:11

--I would once again like to point out the excessive use of cuss words among today's youth. This is deeply saddening. There ARE much better ways to express yourself, even if you don't believe it, and it CAN be accomplishsed without resorting to sesquipedalian loquaciousness. (And, no, I have no clue either if I've spellt that right. Spelled... spellt... now I've confused myself. The English language... groan... and don't get me started on our insane alphabet...)

I don't know, it may be just me, but many of the things that 'inspire' (sarcasm intended) modern youth to cuss are relatively minor things. Tripping on your way up the stairs does not count. Nor should engaging in a normal conversation with a friend on your ever-present cellphone count. Nor should it be the reflex reaction for any given unpleasant situation.

Just think... one day you're going to be called to account for every breath you took, every action you did, every thought that passed through your mind (willingly, at least), and every word you spoke. If that isn't enough to scare a man straight...

And there's always the point that though silence may be misinterpreted, it can never be misquoted. It's something to think about...

Rafting on the Nantahala, 2010. I love how the rest of them are screaming their heads off.

Even More Books I Recommend

They Fired The First Shot 2012

Look What Happened While You Were Sleeping

It Ain't Gonna Happen

I rode the Wild Eagle at Dollywood! Twice! And I have the T-shirt to prove it!

"There are some things it is better to begin rather than to refuse, even though the ending be dark."

- Aragorn, The Two Towers, p. 430

Rainbow Falls, Great Smoky Mountains

"I had forgotten that," said Eomer. "It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?"

"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn. "Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."

- The Two Towers, p.427-428

Mittens! This is one of my brother's cats. Of course, any cat with white paws MUST be named Mittens.

"Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?"

"A man may do both," said Aragorn. "For not we but those who will come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"

- The Two Towers, p. 424

LEGO Loki of Asgard is burdened with a glorious purpose... to decorate my keychain.

"...I will not trouble you now. If ever beyond hope you return to the lands ofy the living and we re-tell our tales, sitting by a wall in the sun, laughing at old grief, you shall tell me then. Until that time, or some other time beyond the vision of the Seeing-stones of Numenor, farewell!"

- Faramir, The Two Towers, p. 678

NASA Pathfinder. What? It's awesome.

Bofur is quite possibly the most adorable LEGO of all time. Just look at that smile!